Climate scientists are dusting off the old playbook, warning that a collapse of the Gulf Stream could plunge the world into a new ice age while paradoxically raising sea levels—echoing the apocalyptic predictions of the 1970s that never materialized.
In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Diego, claim the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) might tip by mid-century, triggering “a modern-day ice age” with drastic temperature drops and coastal flooding.
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels https://t.co/mtZqDdQwce pic.twitter.com/37bikEYbXU
— New York Post (@nypost) November 12, 2025
This comes amid ongoing global warming hysteria, highlighting how climate narratives perpetually frame impending doom to push agendas.
Wait, why would sea level rise with an ice age? I thought the ice caps melting from global warming was supposed to do that, so it would follow that an increase in terrestrial ice would lower sea levels, wouldn't it?
— Robbie J (@RobbieJ377) November 12, 2025
Global warming causes global cooling therefore you should support a tax scheme that ultimately concentrates wealth into fewer hands. This is basic science.
— Barnacle Bill (@barnaclebill35) November 13, 2025
For decades, elites have swung between ice age fears and melting polar caps, always portraying humanity on the brink. Back in the 1970s, media outlets like Newsweek sensationalised warnings of a coming ice age, with scientists citing cooling trends and predicting “wholesale death and misery.”
Figures like ecologist Kenneth Watt declared the world had chilled for 20 years, fueling fears of glacial advance.
Yet, by the 1980s, the narrative flipped to global warming, with Al Gore predicting submerged cities and ice-free poles—none of which have come to pass.
This latest Gulf Stream scare, suggesting a 15°C drop in some regions, fits the pattern: doom as a constant, regardless of the direction.
Over the years, I’ve been told the following eco-disasters would destroy earth (in order): New Ice Age, Acid Rain, Ozone Hole, Global Warming, Global Weirding, Climate Change, New Ice Age. The solution for each was to give the UN more power, end capitalism, and expand government.
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) November 12, 2025
There is no better example of the pivot than billionaire climate crusader Bill Gates who is backpedaling on the hysteria, admitting in a recent memo that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and urging a focus on human welfare over temperature obsession.
Gates, once a doomsayer warning of “climate disasters,” now downplays 1 fluctuations, stating they should be addressed “in proportion to the suffering they cause.”
This shift signals elites shifting from existential threats to more manageable narratives, perhaps realizing endless alarmism erodes credibility.
Critics argue it’s a strategic retreat amid growing skepticism, allowing them to repackage fears like this new ice age to maintain control.
Meanwhile, at the COP30 summit in Brazil, California Governor Gavin Newsom blasted President Trump’s reversal of federal climate policies as “dumb,” while Al Gore decried it as “literally insane” for ignoring “global heating.”
Newsom, positioning himself as a global leader, assured attendees that California would forge ahead, filling the “vacuum” left by Trump’s America First approach.
Yet, this virtue-signaling ignores how such summits often prioritize elite agendas over practical solutions, using ever-evolving threats to justify trillions in spending and regulations.
As we previously highlighted, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, Brazilian authorities have cleared tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to build a new four-lane highway for COP30 attendees.
Approximately 100,000 trees across an eight-mile stretch were felled to accommodate over 50,000 world leaders, activists, and journalists in Belém, sparking outrage over the environmental destruction for a conference ostensibly aimed at combating deforestation and climate change.
These endless elite gatherings preach sustainability while significantly contributing to the very problems they decry, further eroding trust in the alarmist agenda.
Whether it’s melting ice caps or a freezing apocalypse, climate alarmism has always served as a cudgel for impending doom, driving policies that empower governments and enrich insiders.
The 1970s ice age hype, debunked as media exaggeration rather than consensus, mirrors today’s flip-flops—proving the narrative adapts to sustain fear.
As Trump wisely withdraws from costly international pacts, focusing on energy independence and economic growth, these pivots expose the opportunism.
America’s thriving under his leadership shows real progress comes from innovation, not endless scares—ushering in a golden age free from elite-manufactured crises.
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Since ice has volume greater than that of the water from which the ice was formed, it is perhaps not illogical to propose the rise in the ocean levels. So, whether the ice melts or water freezes, the outcome will be the same. One can expand on these idiocies ad infinitum, and invoke the adage about the hell freezing over.